Kalimba

Quality:

Mbira - family of African lamellophones with metal or wooden tines on a resonating body, plucked with thumbs and fingers; especially associated with the Shona people of Zimbabwe, where it holds deep spiritual significance. Article “Kalimba” in Azerbaijani Wikipedia has 5.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in Armenian Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Kalimba”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Azerbaijani Wikipedia and edited by 869 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1 times in Azerbaijani Wikipedia and cited 2069 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Azerbaijani): #984 in August 2014
• Global: #5394 in May 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Azerbaijani): #6935 in October 2016
• Global: #6062 in May 2020

There are 34 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Armenian (hy) Կալիմբա		62.4062
2	Vietnamese (vi) Mbira		57.2542
3	English (en) Mbira		52.8487
4	Hebrew (he) קלימבה		48.0848
5	Bulgarian (bg) Мбира		36.7745
6	Basque (eu) Mbira		36.0818
7	Catalan (ca) Sansa (instrument)		34.0566
8	Russian (ru) Калимба		32.8241
9	Czech (cs) Kalimba		32.1492
10	Japanese (ja) カリンバ		31.4153

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mbira		4 131 470
2	Spanish (es) Kalimba		798 254
3	Japanese (ja) カリンバ		471 337
4	Russian (ru) Калимба		455 274
5	French (fr) Mbira		409 348
6	Portuguese (pt) Kalimba		120 631
7	Polish (pl) Zanza		118 993
8	Italian (it) M'bira		100 820
9	Dutch (nl) Duimpiano		80 116
10	Indonesian (id) Kalimba		61 144

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Mbira		14 535
2	Japanese (ja) カリンバ		1 271
3	Russian (ru) Калимба		1 156
4	French (fr) Mbira		853
5	Spanish (es) Kalimba		664
6	Polish (pl) Zanza		424
7	Chinese (zh) 拇指琴		218
8	Portuguese (pt) Kalimba		209
9	Italian (it) M'bira		196
10	Dutch (nl) Duimpiano		173

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mbira		402
2	Spanish (es) Kalimba		76
3	Dutch (nl) Duimpiano		49
4	Italian (it) M'bira		45
5	French (fr) Mbira		35
6	Russian (ru) Калимба		32
7	Japanese (ja) カリンバ		28
8	Finnish (fi) Mbira		20
9	Portuguese (pt) Kalimba		19
10	Swedish (sv) Mbira		16

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Mbira		3
2	Basque (eu) Mbira		1
3	Japanese (ja) カリンバ		1
4	Arabic (ar) كاليمبا (آلة موسيقية)		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) Kalimba		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Мбира		0
7	Catalan (ca) Sansa (instrument)		0
8	Czech (cs) Kalimba		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Kalimbo		0
10	Spanish (es) Kalimba		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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